Two minutes before the launch of the Sky Muster 2, NBN Chief Executive Bill Morrow looked anxious. He got up from his seat to stand in satellite manufacturer Space Systems Loral’s conference room in Palo Alto, ...

1. Could you address a recent story that SpaceX suspected a nefarious actor might have been a contributor to the Sept. 1 failure? I know you can’t eliminate anything in an inquiry, but…
That’s right: You canno...

Many U.S. residents face the same problem Australia is grappling with: consumers without access to high-speed internet.
On top of that, there are tens of millions of American’s whose cable or DSL services are ...

Blue Origin carried out a successful test of the abort system of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle Oct. 5, managing to safely land both the vehicle’s crew capsule and propulsion module.
The New Shepard vehicl...

The commercial space sector has always been characterized by its fragility. It’s a multibillion-dollar annual business now and may see a new burst of growth as Earth observation takes a seat at the table with t...

Sixty years ago, the United States was focused on a “space race” with the Soviet Union — for lunar bragging rights and military capabilities. Today, as the Space Foundation’s annual Global Space Activities repo...

It was hard to ignore Mars at last month’s International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico, even if you managed to avoid Elon Musk’s plenary talk. On hallways throughout the convention center,...

Firefly Space Systems, a Texas company developing a small launch vehicle, has furloughed its entire staff after an investor backed out, forcing the firm to consider alternative vehicle concepts or even a sale o...

The U.S. Air Force put the launch of a tech demo satellite out to bid for SpaceX and ULA. The Air Force issued a request for proposals Sept. 29 for the Space Test Program 3 mission, which consists of the STPSat...

Thomas Zurbuchen is NASA’s new associate administrator for science. Zurbuchen is currently a professor of space science and aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan, and has worked on several NASA sp...